Weeks ago, Seth sent in a link to an essay, Narrative and Mediatized Memory in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. And because I'm lazy, you guys are only getting it now. Excerpt:

Set in the geographical and ideological aftermath of 9/11, Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) comments upon media's acceleration of memory by showing that the absence of temporal distance, as well as the absence of a symbolic and temporal framework, blurs boundaries between the past and present and risks repetition-compulsion at the level of both individual and collective memory processes. This essay uses Eternal Sunshine to examine the impact of mass media upon memory in contemporary popular culture as a "narrativizing" agent, or as a means by which history is rendered accessible as a mediated narrative to be spectated and publicly remembered